Q&A #23 - Mixer + Recorder or all in one unit

This was an interesting question about whether you should have a mixer plus a separate recorder to go into or an all in one unit. Personally with the Sound Devices 688 I love the all in one solution but its important to point out this key difference when looking at these solutions:

Is it more a mixer or more recorder?This is an important question to answer for the line of work you want to go in for. An all in one unit will not work for a feature film because your mixer faders will be too hard to operate on an all in one solution. Essentially is it more important to have the qualities of a good mixer with a recording function or more routing and recording qualities and put a mixer in front.

This answer will change drastically depending on your line of work but for me I can have the all in one unit solution a then if i need to expand i can put a mixer in front to interface with it as a recorder.